The sky's the limit: Paxton Locher's California-inspired apartment and office block, with its feet in Roman London and its head in the sunshine of American Modernism, offers a whole new outlook on urban living on a difficult, narrow site

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Paxton Locher, architects, were commissioned to build a home for the Jerwood Space, a planned theatre, dance rehearsal space and art gallery. A suggested site in Clerkenwell was long and thin, and could not accommodate the Jerwood brief. However, the practice used its experience in setting up its own projects and took the opportunity to build its first new urban building. The building included an office, three residential floor plates and a penthouse on Clerkenwell Green.

Design and construction, Buildings

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Princely without privilege: Adrian Gale and David Porter are leading the new-look Prince of Wales's Foundation, with its focus on urban reality and housing

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The Prince of Wales's Institute is being overhauled, with a change of name, to the Prince of Wales's Foundation for Architecture and the Urban Environment, a new location and changes in personnel. Foundation head is Adrian Gale, and David Porter will be responsible for the housing side, looking into models provided by Holland and Denmark. Gale is a former Plymouth school head and Porter was formerly at the University East London.

Officials and employees, Schools of architecture, Architecture schools

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Contrary to popular opinion, post-tensioned slabs are no more difficult to alter or demolish than other structural forms

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The three main forms of post-tensioned construction include flat slab, band beams and ribbed slab. The benefits of concrete construction for residential towers and different methods of construction are discussed.

United States, Analysis, Usage, Architectural design, House construction, Concrete slabs

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